Further reading

We see The Little Red Yellow Black Book as a stepping-off point for readers to learn more either by themselves or with others. Here is a list of non-fiction publications that provide more detailed information about some of the subjects covered in the book.

The list is by no means exhaustive. Australia has an abundance of excellent Indigenous cultural creators and we recommend you take the time to explore their work.

For further research into materials that might be of interest, visit Mura®, the AIATSIS Library and Audiovisual collections gateway. The new AIATSIS Pathways provides headings for place names, language groups, people and subjects relating to Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander studies.

Convincing Ground: Learning to fall in love with your country, (Chapter 16 Native Born), Bruce Pascoe. Addresses the debate of how long Indigenous Australians have occupied Australia and provides an Indigenous perspective on how Aboriginal people are treated in the presentation of Australian history.http://lryb.aiatsis.gov.au/PDFs/pascoe_ch16.pdf

‘Aboriginal–Makassan interactions in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in northern Australia and contemporary sea rights claim’ (Australian Aboriginal Studies 2004/1), Denise Russell .Interactions and negotiated arrangements and the way they could form the basis for contemporary land rights arrangements.http://lryb.aiatsis.gov.au/PDFs/aasj04.1_%20makassan.pdf

Boigu: Our History and culture (Trading Westwards by Jerry Anau Charlie Gibuma and Matthew Gibuma pages 104–108), Boigu Island Community Council .Describes traditional monsoon season trading with the Papuan villages of Buzi Thoez and Bera. http://lryb.aiatsis.gov.au/PDFs/boigu_tradwest.pdf

Swinging the Billy: Indigenous and other styles of Australian bush cooking (Kangaroo pages 32–34), Kingsley Palmer A Pitjantjatjara description of preparing and cooking a kangaroo (central Australian desert). http://lryb.aiatsis.gov.au/PDFs/palmer_kangaroo.pdf

‘An assessment of the composition and nutrient content of an Australian Aboriginal hunter–gatherer diet’ (Australian Aboriginal Studies 2003/2 pages 39–52), Richard M Smith and Pamela A Smith. The research of ethnoarchaeologist Richard Gould of hunter-gatherer subsistence diets in the Western Desert in 1969 were analysed for nutrient composition using recent table of Indigenous foods.http://lryb.aiatsis.gov.au/PDFs/aasj03.2_smith&smith.pdf

Woven Histories Dancing Lives: Torres Strait Islander identity culture and history (Part 1 Torres Strait: the region and its people by David Lawrence and Helen Reees Lawrence), Richard Davis (ed.). Brief history of the geography prehistory history and language of the Torres Strait people. http://lryb.aiatsis.gov.au/PDFs/davis_pt1.pdf

Mutton Fish: The surviving culture of Aboriginal people and abalone on the south coast of New South Wales (Livelihood pages 27–31), Beryl Cruse Liddy Stewart and Sue Norman .South coast NSW Koori people living off the sea and the land prior to and during European colonisation up to early 1900s.http://lryb.aiatsis.gov.au/PDFs/cruse_livelihood.pdf

A Wardaman creation story (Australian Aboriginal Studies 2004/2 pages 90–97), Julie Drew with Bill Harney .Wardaman elder Bill Harney gives his creation story to provide people with an understanding of the images put on the rock by the ancestors. Provides further insight into Wardaman culture. http://lryb.aiatsis.gov.au/PDFs/aasj04.02_drew.pdf

Kabaila P 2005, High Country Footprints: Aboriginal pathways and movement in the high country of southeastern Australia recognising the ancient paths beside modern highways, Pirion Publishing, Canberra.

Language and Culture in Aboriginal Australia (Chapter 1 Languages and their status in Aboriginal Australia), Michael Walsh and Colin Yallop (eds) .Information about the number of languages spoken in Australia at the time of European contact and the subsequent decline. http://lryb.aiatsis.gov.au/PDFs/walshyallop_ch1.pdf

Paper and Talk: A manual for reconstituting materials in Australian indigenous languages from historical sources (Chapter 4 Reading Old Sources; what word is that? by Jaki Troy and Tamsin Donaldson), Nicholas Thieberger (ed.) Interpreting historical documents or wordlists written in Indigenous languages. http://lryb.aiatsis.gov.au/PDFs/thieberger_ch4.pdf

National Indigenous Languages Survey Report 2005,
Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies in association with the Federation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Languages. A review of the current state of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islader language use across Australia.http://www.arts.gov.au/sites/default/files/pdfs/nils-report-2005.pdf

Holding Men: Kanyirninpa and the health of Aboriginal men (Chapter 3 Healers and Health), Brian F McCoy.Describes how Puntu traditionally understand being well or unwell. Includes description of marpan traditional healers. http://lryb.aiatsis.gov.au/PDFs/mccoy_ch3.pdf

‘They Used to Call it Sandy Blight’ (Australian Aboriginal Studies 2006/2), Jilpia Nappaljari Jones Leila Smith and Gordon Briscoe. Discusses the eye health of Indigenous people a 1977 documentary and the debate surrounding the film’s censorship.http://lryb.aiatsis.gov.au/PDFs/aasj06.2_jones.pdf

Counting Health and Identity: A history of Aboriginal health and demography in Western Australia and Queensland 1900–40 (Chapter 9 Protection and Segregation), Gordon Briscoe. Investigates the provision of health services to Indigenous people in Queensland 1920–30 and the treatment of people at the time. http://lryb.aiatsis.gov.au/PDFs/briscoe_ch9.pdf

Settlement: A history of Australian Indigenous housing (Chapter 2 The Way It Was by Paul Memmott), Peter Read (ed.). Reconstruction of aspects of customary lifestyle mainly from the Lardil people’s perspective on Mornington Island.http://lryb.aiatsis.gov.au/PDFs/read_ch2.pdf

Aboriginal Spirituality: Aboriginal Philosophy, The Basis of Aboriginal Social and Emotional Wellbeing, Discussion Paper No. 9, Cooperative Research Centre for Aboriginal Health Darwin, Vicki Grieves.Examines the centrality of Aboriginal Spirituality in the practice of social and emotional wellbeing and for applications in all areas of Aboriginal development.http://www.lowitja.org.au/lowitja-publishing/C009

Trudgen R 2000, Why Warriors Lie Down and Die: Towards an understanding of why the Aboriginal people of Arnhem Land face the greatest crisis in health and education since European contact: djambatj mala, Aboriginal Resource and Development Services Inc,. Darwin NT.

Don’t Ask for Stories: The women from Ernabella and their art (Chapter 5 Our lives as artists: nganampa ara: walka tjutatjara by Angkaliya [Tulapa] Purampi and Angkaliayaku Tjukurpa), Ute Eickelkamp (compiler) .First-person account of life as an artist from Ernabella Arts Inc. known for its distinctive designs and the use of different media like textile art. http://lryb.aiatsis.gov.au/PDFs/eickelkamp_ch5.pdf

Past and Present: The construction of Aboriginality (Chapter 8 Writing black: the construction of an Aboriginal discourse by Robert Ariss), Jeremy Beckett (ed.) .Investigates the place of Aboriginal literature within the power relationship of power between the Indigenous and dominant non-Indigenous community. http://lryb.aiatsis.gov.au/PDFs/beckett_ch8.pdf

Writing Never Arrives Naked: Early Aboriginal cultures of writing in Australia (Chapter 4 Borderlands of Aboriginal Writing), Penny van Toorn. Reveals how scripts can move from being phonographic ideographic or pictographic; how they can change modes and function simultaneously.http://lryb.aiatsis.gov.au/PDFs/vantoorn_ch4.pdf

Disciplining the Savages: Savaging the Disciplines (Chapter 8 Disciplining the Islander in formal education), Martin Nakata. History and impact of formal education in the Torres Strait. http://lryb.aiatsis.gov.au/PDFs/nakata_ch8.pdf

Maps to success : a handbook — successful strategies in Indigenous organisations, Australian Institute of Aboriginal & Torres Strait Island Studies and The Australian Collaboration. A study of Indigenous organisations that have helped to promote community wellbeing or to overcome disadvantage. http://www.aiatsis.gov.au/research/success.html

Improving Indigenous community governance through strengthening Indigenous and government organisational capacity, Komla Tsey Janya McCalman Roxanne Bainbridge and Cath Brown. Argues that strengthening the organisational capacity of both Indigenous and government organisations is critical to raising the health wellbeing and prosperity of Indigenous Australian communities. http://www.aihw.gov.au/closingthegap/documents/resource_sheets/ctgc-rs10.pdf

Fighters from the Fringe: Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders recall the Second World War (Chapter 1 Defending Australia), Robert A Hall. History of Indigenous involvement in the war. http://lryb.aiatsis.gov.au/PDFs/hall_ch1.pdf

‘Confessions of a Native Title Judge’ (Land Rights Laws: Issues of Native Title vol 3 no 14 June 2008), Chief Judge Joe Williams. Reflections on the role of transitional justice in the transformation of Indigeneity. http://lryb.aiatsis.gov.au/PDFs/lrli_vol3.13pdf.pdf

‘Not Fit For Modern Society’ (Research Discussion Paper no 16 2005), Kerry Arabena. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and the new arrangements for the administration of Indigenous affairs. http://lryb.aiatsis.gov.au/PDFs/rdp16_arabena.pdf

A Bend in the Yarra: A history of the Merri Creek Protectorate Station and Merri Creek Aboriginal School 1841–1851 (Chapter 5 Merri Creek Protectorate Station),
Ian Clark and Toby Heydon. Life at the Merri Creek Protectorate Station. http://lryb.aiatsis.gov.au/PDFs/clarkheydon_ch5.pdf

Kangushot: The life of Nyamal lawman Peter Coppin (Chapter 1 Mardamarda), Jolly Read and Peter Coppin. Describes the influence of pastoralists on Nyamal country and people in particular Coppin’s non-Aboriginal father and Aboriginal mother.http://lryb.aiatsis.gov.au/PDFs/readcoppin_ch1.pdf

White Christ Black Cross: The emergence of a Black Church (Chapter 4 The Golden Age of Missions 1900–1950), Noel Loos.The establishment in the communities and management of industrial missions.http://lryb.aiatsis.gov.au/PDFs/loos_ch4.pdf

Historical Narrative and Proof of Native Title (Land Rights Laws: Issues of Native Title vol 2 no3 Sept 1999), Christine Choo and Margaret O’Connell.The report of the historian who is called to prepare and give historical evidence in the native title process depends on the representation of historical facts their analysis of the facts and an opinion based on the analysis. http://lryb.aiatsis.gov.au/PDFs/lrli_vol2.3pdf.pdf

Fight for Liberty and Freedom: The origins of Australian Aboriginal activism (Chapter 4 Political Mobilisation),
John Maynard.Elizabeth McKenzie Hatton the AAPA and relations with the AAM and AIM; the influence of Marcus Garvey. http://lryb.aiatsis.gov.au/PDFs/maynard_ch4.pdf

Trustees on Trial: Recovering the stolen wages (Chapter 1 The Deal), Rosalind Kidd.Community and individual reactions to the Parliamentary decision to return wages and the organisations and processes responsible for this decision. http://lryb.aiatsis.gov.au/PDFs/kidd_ch1.pdf

Compromised Jurisprudence: Native title cases since Mabo (Chapter 1 Recognising native title in Australian law: Mabo v Queensland [No 2] High Court of Australia 1992),
Lisa Strelein.Outline of the Mabo case and its impact on Australian law.http://lryb.aiatsis.gov.au/PDFs/strelein_ch1.pdf

Us Taken-Away Kids: Commemorating the 10th anniversary of the Bringing them home report, The Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission.Indigenous peoples across Australia share their experiences of removal their thoughts ten years on from the Inquiry and their hopes for the future. http://www.humanrights.gov.au/bth/taken/index.html

‘The 2008 Amendments to the Native Title Act’ (Land Rights Laws: Issues of Native Title vol 3 no 12 Feb 2008),
Justice Robert French.Explores how the native title system might operate more effectively to assist traditional owners achieve their goals.http://lryb.aiatsis.gov.au/PDFs/lrli_vol3.12pdf.pdf

Treaty: Let’s get it right! A collection of essays from ATSIC’s treaty think tank and authors commissioned by AIATSIS on treaty issues (Indigenous Education Languages and Treaty: The Redefinition of a New Relationship with Australia), Lester-Irabinna Rigney. Explores how a treaty needs to create a new space within education that allows for Indigenous governance and reinforces Indigenous cultural views. http://lryb.aiatsis.gov.au/PDFs/treaty_rigney.pdf